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Evening Primrose

Episode Number: 9    Season Num: 1    First Aired: November 16, 1966    Prod Code: n/a
This original musical, with songs by Stephen Sondheim, is a story about a poet, Charles Snell, who decides to drop out of society and live, secretly, in a department store. To his surprise he finds a group of people already doing just that. The catch is that once inside you must stay forever. Errant group members disappear only to reappear later as store mannequins. He meets a young lady, Ella Harkins, and the two fall in love and prepare to leave. The show ends with a shot of a new bride and groom mannequin in a store window.
Songs included:
(If You Can Find Me) I'm Here - Tony Perkins / I Remember - Charmian Carr / When - Perkins and Carr / Take Me to the World - Carr and Perkins.
Music arranged and conducted by Norman Paris, assisted by David Shire.

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Writer: John Collier, James Goldman
Director: Paul Bogart
Guest Star: Charmian Carr (Ella Harkins),  Dorothy Stickney (Mrs. Monday),  Larry Gates (Roscoe Potts),  Margaret Bannerman (Store person),  Margaret Baker (Store person),  Leonard Elliott (Store person),  Mike Meola (Store person),  Dorothy Sands (Store person),  Anthony Perkins (Charles Snell),  Magaretta Warwick (Store person)

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This program is one of the most requested for viewing at the Museum of Television & Radio in New York City. (edit)
The show was taped on location at Stern Bros. Department Store in Manhattan. (edit)
The story was done on the CBS radio show "Escape" three times: 11/05/47 with Elliot Lewis, 09/12/48 with William Conrad and 08/25/49 with Harry Bartell. Each production used the same script but different casts. (edit)
This episode only survives in a black and white copy. A soundtrack recording is due to released in May 2008 on the Kritzerland label in a edition limited to 3,000 copies. A studio cast version was released in 2001 on Nonesuch Records. (edit)

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Evening Primrose
"A very special episode"
Sondheim's only musical for television
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